Sydney to London

The Classic Outback Trial team is thrilled to be part of the Sydney to London Classic Marathon and we’re really looking forward to showing SLM crews some of our COT stages in the first four days of this great event. We’re also thrilled that Frontier Services are part of the SLM and we’re supporting their SLM fundraising activities.

This site lets you donate direct to Frontier Services or by “sponsoring” a team on the SLM. There are already a few teams set up, including the SLM redshirts, the Hartman Hot Wheels team and now, the COT team. We’re not really that competitive of course, but these teams are looking to raise the most for Frontier Services so we can win the coveted “Frontier Services Charity Cup”.

This is really important fund raising – Frontier Services do essential work with the people who live remote parts of Australia and need our support to keep this work going. And, both the Sydney to London and the Classic Outback Trial benefit from our Frontier Services partnership – we get to rally in an absolutely sensational part of Australia. So – we need to support our partners.

Go to the website and make a donation – either direct to Frontier Services or through a team by “sponsoring” that team. And share your donation to your social media friends – get them to reach into their pockets too! Donations are tax deductible and all funds go direct to Frontier Services.

We’re appealing to all of our COT officials to make a donation by “sponsoring” the COT team – lets show how #cotofficialsmakeithappen!

And we’d like to encourage other SLM teams to register and have a crack at the Frontier Services Charity Cup… (Whatever that is… did Gary Williamson make it up? 😎 )

Frontier Services is a great organisation, full of wonderful people that do essential and valuable work. Let’s get behind them – donate now!

We missed this bloke – just. Lots of emus, kangaroos and goats on Coombah Station this trip.

The route runs past an amazing ruin on Farmcote – this is an abandoned hotel at The Springs, an old stage coach stop. We stopped for a beer, but the pub was delicensed in 1893.

KR at shearing shed… on Burrawang West Station.

Interesting geological outcrop on Farmcote.

Spring in Cowra

Great 57 km stage on Avondale and Farmcote to end day 3 of the SLM.

AN old outstation on Farmcote, near Broken Hill.

A dash through the native pines on Hillview.

Lunch at Eugowra – some impressive murals. — in Eugowra, New South Wales.

The Renmark Hotel awaits crews at the end of day 4 of the Sydney to London Classic Marathon Rally 2014. It’s also the end of our part of the SLM… we hand off to Ivar and his team to take the SLM through to Perth. We’ve had a good survey week and the first four days of the SLM are shaping up really well.

Silverton Hotel – this is Mad Max country… The SLM crews wont get out here unfortunately.

When it rains in Broken Hill, it really rains – that why there are huuuuge gutters. But, the flooded lanes are useful for washing mud from under the car.

Slow start to the day… a flat on the way into Avondale, near Broken Hill.

Coombah – a 58 km stage to start day 4 of the SLM that has everything from fast plains, lots of red sand and some large dunes. Oh yeah – and lots of animals.

Mustering at Comarto… those big boys are Charolais bulls.

Setting out timing markers; Mt Canolbolas SF.

The overnight rain caused us some concerns today.

A 36 km stage on Emu Station. The wheat will be harvested by the time the SLM gets here.